Serbia: Serbian brewery Beogradska Industrija Piva is to be privatized soon. The large international breweries are on the rows. For reformers, the privatisation of the Serbian brewery Beogradska Industrija Piva is an important step in opening up the country to wider international investment. But for defenders of ancestral property rights, it is "a continuation of communist plunder", Financial Times revealed on March 22.

Divergent opinion is nothing new in the Balkans. Observers of Balkan politics are accustomed to travelling back decades, sometimes centuries, to find the roots of a contemporary conflict.

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